Doc is about to lose his Harvard blog, and he’s stuck in California with too much to do and is afraid it will slip through is fingers if he has to prioritize his time so as not to be able to save it. I wrote him this email. #
- A perfect storm. #
- I had something smaller happen when I was moving out of my house in Berkeley in 2010.#
- My server was down, it was a serious system thing. But I had to turn over the house to the new owners and get in my car and start the trip back to NYC.#
- I got a call from someone deep in Amazon, their CTO who reads my blog had asked him to call to see if he could help, but I had no time. I had to leave. 1.35 million reasons.#
- After that, no one at Amazon will talk to me. They must have given me a zero in their rating system. I was offered Cadillac support and turned it down. #
- How dare me. #
- We suck Doc. We don’t matter. I’m receiving confirmation of that every day, except from friends, who remind me that I do. #
- So I’m your friend — even if your blog doesn’t come with you, you’re still my friend. #
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Posted by Noah Bast on September 5, 2006 at 8:25 am
I’m sorry to hear about your Mac experiences. I’m sure you know this, but I am sure your experince is unusual. We have had 5 modern Apple laptops with very few issues. The cooling system on one failed after 2.5 years of almost constant use and it started crashing due to heat issues. Apple replaced almost everything inside the machine with a 3 day turn around. Another had a hard drive fail after a few years and it was replaced with a larger HD also with a 3 day turn around. AppleCare Warranty service has been amazing on the few times I’ve needed to use it.
Posted by Eugene Eric Kim on September 5, 2006 at 9:42 am
Many thanks, Dave, for OPML. 🙂 If you’d like a walkthrough of the HyperScope sometime, let us know.
Posted by Jacob Levy on September 5, 2006 at 10:24 am
Dave
Your hyperscope example does not work. It gives me [object error].
Posted by Eugene Eric Kim on September 5, 2006 at 11:00 am
Jacob, are you using Firefox or IE? HyperScope only works in those browsers (for now).
Posted by Bryan Person on September 5, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Dave:
Thanks for the link to PodCamp and for your contribution. I will be at the event at Harvard on Friday night, and I’m looking forward to hearing that interview with you and Chris from the archives.
–Bryan Person
PodCamp organizer (one of many)
Blog: Bryper.com
Podcast: NewCommRoad.com
Posted by Steve Garfield on September 5, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Listening to the podcast now. It’s great!
Posted by chrisbrogan on September 5, 2006 at 5:50 pm
Hi Dave–
Wow, today links together all kinds of PodCamp and podcasty goodness: you and Chris Lydon (I’m a fan of both), RocketBoom (who mentioned PodCamp today), and those swell Berkman folks.
Hyperscope looks cool!
–Chris “The Long Tail Isn’t What You Think” Brogan…
PodCamp.org
Posted by Bjorn Juliusson on September 6, 2006 at 3:43 am
Maybe you should use Alsoft’s DiskWarrior?
“MacAddict 01/2005 – We think it’s the most complete, reliable, and trustworthy disk-repair utility available. If your Mac is acting funky, DiskWarrior is your best bet for getting things whipped back into shape.”
Posted by Marjo Visser on September 6, 2006 at 7:12 am
Dear Dave,
Do you have the email-adress of phonenumber for me from Adam Curry. I Like to interview him for a CEO-business magazine
Thanks
Marjo Visser
31-030-6919986